When we think of setting, the first thing that comes to mind is likely to be a panoramic view of a place—a village, forest, castle, planet. When people ask me about my WIP, I tell them that it’s “set” in Iceland, among the glaciers and thermal lagoons. Right away, they have a vision, a way to locate the characters and picture what will happen … A setting like Iceland can situate a story in a time or culture or geography, evoke limitations and possibilities, create a mood. Yet setting can do so much more than that! When we shrink the scale from landscape to detail and focus on bits of setting—small sensory data—we can discover a whole range of story-relevant...
Whether you are diving into an anatomy lesson for kids with a fun human body project or are just helping kids explore what happens to food after they eat it, this intestines for kids project is a MUST. In this digestives system experiment kids will learn just how big their intestines are and how does digestion work. This how we […]
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Click here to read Does it Sink or Float Experiment for Toddlers on Hands On As We Grow® Get splashing with a fun sink or float experiment that's perfect for toddlers! It's an easy water experiment that you can do inside or out. Seriously, the most asked for activity from Henry is a water activity. And this sink or float experiment is right up there and perfect for water-loving toddlers to see what will sink to the bottom or float at the top. After doing his own water experiment, painting with water on the driveway, a what dissolves in water experiment, the stages of water experiment, along with many other countless ones, I am struggling to come up with new ideas...
When I started brainstorming for our new collaboration with Crate & Kids—a collection of furniture and accessories for babies all the way to teens that came about during the early days of the pandemic—my mind immediately went back to my own childhood. Growing up in Southern California, I was always at the beach, a public space where everyone is welcome and can be themselves. As refugees from Vietnam (my parents came over when I was an infant with little more than a rice cooker), that feeling of being free meant a lot. At home, I would get scrappy with setting up my space and experiment with whatever I had on hand (no surprise: I’ve always cared about my surroundings). I...
After sharing so many splatter-painting backgrounds, it's time for a splatter-painted foreground. Rather than the thumb-across-toothbrush technique, I used a different method to achieve the dots and drips. It was so much fun!Splatter Paint Fall TreesMaterials: watercolor paper crayons (brown, black) acrylic paint (blue, orange, yellow, red-brown) two paintbrushes Steps:Use crayons to draw bare trees on the watercolor paper. I drew four trees, each with plenty of branches and twigs, then added a bit of shadow with the black crayon. Thin the blue paint and use it to create a wash of color on the entire paper. These bits of sky will show through between the leaves of the tree. Let the paint dry. Put the painting into a cardboard box. I have...
